High Holy Days

Jews go to a body of running water, empty their pockets of crumbs, and throw the crumbs into the water. The crumbs from our pockets are meant to represent the sins we’ve been carrying around with us. We take them out of pockets and throw them into the water to represent our hope that we can take our sins, ask forgiveness of God and one another, and then cast them away. We find a running body of water to represent our desire that once we cast our symbolic sins away, we will not return to our old ways. Our wrong actions should be swept away, never to return.